When Wang Chengen heard this, his eyes turned red. www.biquge.info He suddenly fell to his knees with a pop, and tears flowed down his eyes. He bowed his head and wiped a handful of tears, sobbed and said: "The Holy Lord is the Son of Heaven, and he has worked hard all night and night for the affairs of the state. However, he still has to endure humiliation and burden in front of the powerful ministers and warlords, and retreat everywhere. It's all to blame for our incompetence and can't share the worries of the Son of Heaven. ”

Zhu Youzhen took a breath.

However, his mood was not as heavy as Wang Chengen, he shook his head and said, "Wang Chengen, this Jin Guogong is loyal after all. Now which of my chief soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is not a warlord? Zu Dashou and Zheng Zhilong, which of these characters is at the disposal of them? All of them are entrenched in the local area. ”

"In the final analysis, it was because he was born and died for the country that he would be angry with the traitors who murdered him. If Li Zhi refused to obey the dispatch like Zheng Zhilong, he would not have been murdered by traitors in Jinzhou, he would not have been angry at the crown, and the 160,000 border troops would not have obeyed his call to Chen Bing in the suburbs of Beijing. ”

"But then there will be no one to contribute to the country. In that case, Jinzhou would have been defeated a long time ago, and I would be in danger. It's not so much that the Duke of Jin is aggressive, but that he really makes a huge contribution to the country! ”

Wang Chengen wiped his tears and said: "What the saint said is extremely true, but the so-called lord humiliates the ministers to death, and the slaves and maids really can't stand it." Li Zhi's momentum is no longer like a courtier, how can it go on like this? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the palace in the distance and was silent for a while.

After a long time, he said: "If the situation reaches the worst, and the imperial court crusades against the Duke of Jinguo and loses both sides in a protracted fight, not only will the military leaders outside the court be ready to move, but the civil officials above the court may no longer take me seriously." Jin Guogong is aggressive today, only because of his great merits. If there is no place for him to make meritorious contributions, his momentum will naturally fade. ”

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Youzhen said again: "This time, thirty-seven traitors were beheaded and a large amount of silver was confiscated. Coupled with the exposure of the Tibetan silver of the Taifu Temple, the imperial court suddenly became a lot larger. The matter of training recruits stopped some time ago because there was no money, and now it can be started again. I'm going to build hundreds of Hongyi cannons. In the future, he has these soldiers and horses to defend the royal family, and the domineering spirit of the Duke of Jin will also be reduced a lot. ”

Hearing that the Son of Heaven was going to restart the training of new soldiers, Wang Chengen burst into tears, wiped his tears, and shouted loudly: "Emperor Shengming!" It is expected that after the training of 100,000 recruits, Li Zhi will not dare to take a step beyond the norm. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked into the distance and smiled. He was full of confidence and strode into the Qianqing Palace.

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Zheng Zhilong took his entourage and slowly rode out of the capital.

Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhibao looked at the capital behind him, shook his head and said, "Big brother, this time I went to Beijing to do something, and I really spent a lot of silver. ”

Zheng Zhilong said lightly: "What is this silver? As long as we occupy Fujian and occupy the southeast sea frontier, how much silver will not be earned? Over the years, we have more and more ships, soldiers and horses, and in a few years, even the civil officials in Fujian will listen to my Zheng Zhilong, so why bother with this silver? ”

Zheng Zhibao was still a little distressed about the silver, thought about it and said, "Big brother, Li Zhiken refuses to give up Hsinchu's profits?" ”

Zheng Zhilong shook his head.

Zheng Zhibao's eyes rolled and said angrily: "This Li Zhi is so bold, he doesn't know what the big brother on the sea says?" If our thousands of warships cut off his shipping route to Hsinchu, his 100,000 people will be trapped on Xiaoliuqiu Island! ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "This Li Zhi, I'm afraid I think that his dozens of boats can fight against us!" ”

Zheng Zhibao said: "Big brother, we went to rob Li Zhi's ship? Let him know what the Zheng family is. ”

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't worry, our subordinates are all pirates, there are no rules, it's okay to fight and rob, but it's not okay to start reclamation." With Li Zhi busy for us in Xiaoliuqiu, why should we rush to shatter his dreams? Let him continue to make Hsinchu big and rich, and we will get it again in a while! ”

Zheng Zhibao looked at Zheng Zhilong and was stunned, and after a long time, he laughed: "Big brother is so courageous!" ”

Zheng Zhilong pursed his mouth and said, "When it comes to the sea, my Zheng Zhilong's words still count." ”

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Li Zhi's army slowly drove towards Tianjin, and by May 20, it returned to Tianjin and entered Fanjiazhuang.

Feng Yuanyang, the governor of Tianjin, led the civil and military officials of Tianjin to welcome Li Zhi out of thirty miles and greet the triumphant Li Zhi in the outskirts of Fanjiazhuang. The procession carried pigs, sheep and rice wine, beat gongs and drums and waited on the road.

Although the celebrities and Confucian scholars in Tianjin were a little dissatisfied with Li Zhi, Li Zhi firmly ruled Tianjin, where did these people dare to express their dissatisfaction in Tianjin? If a word is wrong and Li Zhi's secret guards listen to it, it will be unlucky. At this time, Li Zhi was promoted to the Duke of Jinguo, and his power was even more overwhelming. In order to tie up Li Zhi, they all stood on both sides of the road and waited.

From early morning to morning, everyone finally waited for Li Zhi. As soon as they saw the front of the army, Feng Yuanyang and the others trotted up to meet them. Hundreds of civil and military officials and well-dressed people trotted briskly under the leadership of Feng Yuanyang, and the scene was a little funny.

Hundreds of people ran to both sides of Li Zhi's personal guards, all of them reaching the ground, shouting to welcome Li Zhi's triumph.

Li Zhi looked at the stammering appearance of these officials and scribes, smiled, and nodded to everyone on the horse, even if it was a greeting.

Feng Yuanyang saw the nod of Jin Guogong, and secretly said that his own knot Jin Guogong saw it and was overjoyed. He waved vigorously to the gong and drum corps behind him, making the musicians louder and making the welcome more enthusiastic.

Li Zhi led the army to continue to walk forward, and when he walked ten miles away from Fanjiazhuang, he saw the people who had spontaneously gathered here.

These people also came to welcome the triumph of the Tiger Master. Tens of thousands of people, many of whom are family members of the Tiger Warriors, crowded on both sides of the road to watch their children go home. They searched the queue carefully until they confirmed that their children were really alive and triumphant, and then they rejoiced one by one. Some young people cheered, while others burst into tears.

Li Zhi was watching the excited crowd immediately, but saw a family standing on both sides of the road with tears streaming down their faces. Seeing Li Zhi riding over, the family knelt on the side of the road.

Li Zhi didn't know why the family was crying so sadly, so he stopped the horse and said, "Folks, please get up, why are you crying!" ”

The head of the family, a white-haired old man, got up tremblingly, leaned on crutches and said, "My second son went out with the general and died in the battle at Hutouba!" Half a month ago, it was buried in the martyrs' cemetery. ”

Li Zhi's face sank, and he arched his hand and said: "Li Zhi failed to bring back all the children in Tianjin, I'm sorry for my father!" ”

The old man smiled, but the tears on his face flowed even more. He wiped his tears and said, "Since ancient times, how many people can return?" My family came here to greet Grandpa Guo's triumph because I wanted to tell Grandpa Guo that my son died in a glorious battle to defend the country, and our family is proud of him. ”